Editing D'oh! (section)

==Origin==
Several decades before ''The Simpsons'' was aired, the exclamation "D'oh!" was used in the [[BBC]] [[radio comedy]] program, ''[[It's That Man Again]]'', which ran from 1939 to 1949. It was the [[catchphrase]] of the formidable, but soft-hearted, character, "Miss Hotchkiss".<ref>{{cite book |contributor-last=Kavanagh |contributor-first=P. J. |contributor-link=P. J. Kavanagh |last=Kavanagh |first=Ted |author-link=Ted Kavanagh |title=The ITMA Years: Scripts |date=1975 |publisher=Futura Publications |location=London |isbn=978-0-86007-245-4 |page=141 |contribution=Introduction}}</ref>
[[File:Dan_Castellaneta_cropped.jpg|thumb|[[Dan Castellaneta]], voice of [[Homer Simpson]]]]
During the voice recording session for a ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show|Tracey Ullman Show]]'' short, Homer was required to utter what was written in the script as an "annoyed grunt".<ref name="sprcon">{{cite book |last1=Reiss |first1=Mike |last2=Klickstein |first2=Mathew |title=Springfield confidential: jokes, secrets, and outright lies from a lifetime writing for the Simpsons |date=2018 |publisher=Dey Street Books |isbn=978-0062748034 |page=108|location=New York City}}</ref> [[Dan Castellaneta]] rendered it as a drawn out "d'ooooooh". This was inspired by [[James Finlayson (actor)|Jimmy Finlayson]], who had used the term in his first sound film role, in 1929's ''[[Men O' War]]'', as a [[minced oath]] for suggesting the word "damn!" without actually saying it. The mustachioed Scottish actor (acknowledged by Dan Castellaneta as the progenitor for Homer Simpson's similar expression of disbelief or outrage) would go on to appear in 33 [[Laurel and Hardy]] films, from the pre-sound era up to 1940.<ref name="sprcon"/>  [[Matt Groening]] felt that it would better suit the timing of animation if it were spoken faster. Castellaneta then shortened it to a quickly uttered "d'oh!"<ref name=herald>{{Cite news|title=What's the story with . . . Homer's D'oh! |newspaper=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]], Glasgow |pages=15 |date=July 21, 2007 |url=http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.1562687.0.whats_the_story_with_homers_doh.php |access-date=July 22, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111111/http://www.theherald.co.uk/search/display.var.1562687.0.whats_the_story_with_homers_doh.php |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref> The first intentional use of "d'oh!" occurred in the ''Ullman'' short "Punching Bag" (1988),<ref name=herald/>  and its first usage in the series was in the series premiere, "[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]".<ref name="doh">{{cite news|first=Jeremy |last=Simon |title=Wisdom from The Simpsons' 'D'ohh' boy |url=http://snpp.com/other/interviews/castellaneta94.html |newspaper=[[The Daily Northwestern]] |date=February 11, 1994 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515145344/http://www.snpp.com/other/interviews/castellaneta94.html |archive-date=May 15, 2008 }}</ref> It is typically represented in the show's script as "(annoyed grunt)", and is so spelled out in the official titles of several episodes. Some episodes feature variations of the word such as "[[Bart of Darkness]]" ([[The Simpsons (season 6)|season six]], 1994), where Homer says "D'oheth"<ref name="doh"/> after an Amish farmer points out to him that he has built a barn instead of the swimming pool he was intending; "[[Thirty Minutes over Tokyo]]" ([[The Simpsons (season 10)|season ten]], 1999), where Homer says "d'oh" in Japanese (with English subtitles, the spoken phrase being "''shimatta baka ni''", meaning roughly "damn folly"); or ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'' (2007) where Homer bellows "d'oh-ome!" after the [[United States Environmental Protection Agency|EPA]] seals the Simpsons' hometown, [[Springfield (The Simpsons)|Springfield]], in a giant dome.<ref>{{cite video |title=[[The Simpsons Movie]] |medium=Film |publisher=[[20th Century Fox]] |date=July 27, 2007}}</ref> The spelling is made official in "[[El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)]]" ([[The Simpsons (season 8)|season eight]], 1997), in which Homer, after having eaten a very spicy chili, hallucinates about a tortoise and exclaims a loud "d'oh!" as he realizes that he needs to follow the slow animal in order to find out about his soul mate.